Hey everybody....Question about using M50 as controller/midi

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Jacon92
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Hey everybody....Question about using M50 as controller/midi

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Hey everybody!

I´m new to this forum, but in the short time I´ve been here, I see that there´s a lot of knowledge and helpful souls on here! Hopefully I can learn a lot and ask some guidance from you :)

Now my question is about the Korg M50....Its a very amateur question, but still....Is it possible to use the M50 entirely as a controller/midi-keyboard, by plugging it to a computer and a software program?
This means that I will be using the M50 ONLY as a controller-keyboard with other software sounds, I won´t be using the hardware at all....

And is it possible to use the software program from one laptop, while recording the sounds from that laptop to another computer? Or does it have to recorded within the same program as the software comes from?

I admit that this is a veeeeeery n00bish question, but I´m not that skilled on keyboards, so please help...Haha

Thanks again!
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Post by Jacon92 »

And also, if you have some kind of quick guidance to HOW I do this, where I plug and so on, that would be nice....VERY noob yes, but I aim to learn!

thanks again!
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Download and install the KORG USB-MIDI driver or install it from the CD that came with the M50.

Plug in the M50 and then run the utility in Start > Programs > KORG > USB-MIDI Driver > Install KORG USB-MIDI Device to associate the KORG driver with the M50 as a USB device (and stop it from using the incorrect built in windows drivers).

Now you should be able to select the M50 as a MIDI input for your softsynth in standalone mode or when the synth is running in a host, the MIDI routing will be controlled by the host software.

You can record the audio from the laptop using simple stereo audio connections, just like you would to record from a CD or MP3 player or any other audio device - you could connect the audio output from one computer to the audio input of another computer. There would be a slight or possibly more noticable loss in quality because you are converting to analog or back. Some sound cards and interfaces may have ADAT or SPDIF or TOSLINK digital connections which you could hook up - I know very little about them as not a lot of consumer-level gear has them.
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